B&L was infantalizing the population. the big moment of rebellion was when the captain took a step. I agree...although the next leap would be to say that by regressing the people they were implying that overweight folk are helpless and/or childlike. *shrug* The size of the people wasn't so much the focus of the movie, but their overall inability to do much of anything because of atrophy. I thought the scene where the man fell out of his hoverchair and was unable to get up and the individuals around him were unable (but definitely not unwilling) to lend him a hand illustrated that, but I think if you're already feeling slighted it's easy to interpret that whole sequence as a "fat joke".
I thought the romance was cute as well, but felt like the "message" aspect should have at least made a blip on the trailer radar. I mean, I sat through nearly 15 minutes of footage at Comic-Con, and nowhere did I get any hint about the message hammers that bludgeoned me during the last twenty minutes or so of movie. It wasn't an A plot/B plot movie, but I left there feeling like it sorta was, and it had me a little put out. The whole "Wall-E" as mourned hero thing was hella annoying too. I'd forgotten about that.
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Date: 2008-07-14 11:56 pm (UTC)I agree...although the next leap would be to say that by regressing the people they were implying that overweight folk are helpless and/or childlike. *shrug* The size of the people wasn't so much the focus of the movie, but their overall inability to do much of anything because of atrophy. I thought the scene where the man fell out of his hoverchair and was unable to get up and the individuals around him were unable (but definitely not unwilling) to lend him a hand illustrated that, but I think if you're already feeling slighted it's easy to interpret that whole sequence as a "fat joke".
I thought the romance was cute as well, but felt like the "message" aspect should have at least made a blip on the trailer radar. I mean, I sat through nearly 15 minutes of footage at Comic-Con, and nowhere did I get any hint about the message hammers that bludgeoned me during the last twenty minutes or so of movie. It wasn't an A plot/B plot movie, but I left there feeling like it sorta was, and it had me a little put out. The whole "Wall-E" as mourned hero thing was hella annoying too. I'd forgotten about that.